Investigation

After having a delicious meal with Silver Page Area specialties in a small restaurant, Xia Ruize and the other two witnessed the way Silver Page Area trialers communicate with each other. More than 30 people came to greet Shizi, and seven or eight of them sat down to have a drink and chatted about the mission worlds they encountered before leaving.

From time to time, they could see large groups of people coming to the restaurant to eat together, so the restaurant was always very busy.

During the chat, Xia Ruize and the other two also learned about the basic situation of several famous large teams in the Silver Page Area. In the words of Shizi, if they encounter members of these teams in future missions, they must pay attention to their attitude and never offend them if they can, otherwise they will face being ostracized by the entire team.

After enjoying the delicious food, Xia Ruize and the other two said goodbye to Shizi and headed for the main temple. As usual, they first scanned the black market, and then carefully browsed the official store, comparing and considering those tempting products.

Of course, according to the habits of the three, they would not consume immediately after the previous mission was completed, because there were too many possibilities to choose from, and they needed to spend time thinking and planning after understanding them. Now they just wanted to understand as many possible stages as possible.

Five hours later, the three agreed on the next time they would meet and each left the endless world.

After returning to real life, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian devoted most of their energy to their private research institute. The technological level of the mission world they entered this time was about 20 years ahead of the current Blue Star, and the gap was much smaller than the Zhuoyuan Star they entered before.

This means that the various technical data they collected at the last minute of the mission could be more easily re-realized on Blue Star. The injection of new data rapidly accelerated the research progress of several projects of the researchers.

The only unpleasant news was that Chen Dajun, who was sent to prison by them before the mission, was suddenly transferred to another place to serve his sentence by an unknown force, and even Cheng Huaiqian himself could not find out where Chen Dajun was taken.

When another disciple of the Cheng family who was sent to prison by Cheng Huaiqian was also inexplicably transferred and escaped from Cheng Huaiqian’s surveillance, Cheng Huaiqian stopped all investigations against these two people.

“They were able to move them so easily and completely erase all traces, making it impossible for anyone to track them down. I guess there is only one force that can do this.”

At that time, Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize were sitting at the dining table waiting for dinner. The national news was playing on TV. Cheng Huaiqian was watching the news and whispered meaningfully, “The authorities may not be completely unaware of this.”

Xia Ruize paused as he peeled the orange, then continued peeling the white orange string, eating one slice himself and feeding one to his lover, while whispering his thoughts:

“I guess they don’t have the means to actively detect it…”

Cheng Huaiqian suspected that the authorities had some knowledge of the existence of the trialer. Xia Ruize thought about it carefully and felt that this was not impossible. Although the Lord God stipulated that the trialer could not actively leak information about the endless world in any form, there was no way to prevent some people from inadvertently revealing flaws and being noticed as abnormal.

For example, Chen Dajun, who targeted Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian in order to exonerate his brother, collapsed when he found that he could not enter the endless world while in prison. The huge contrast between his performance before and after could easily arouse official suspicion and more attention.

If the authorities had known about the situation of the trialers before, these people with abnormal behavior would most likely be secretly taken away and dealt with as a whole.

The experience of Cheng’s collateral descendants also verified this possibility.

However, Xia Ruize quickly figured it out. The authorities probably didn’t have the means to proactively test the trialers, and could only passively discover those with abnormal conditions. After all, the authorities hadn’t proactively approached them up to now.

Xia Ruize carefully recalled his and his lover’s performance throughout the whole process. Only when they came into contact with Chen Dajun himself did they reveal some of their strength. However, the evidence they submitted had tried their best to make up for the loopholes, and the credit for the counterattack and arrest of Chen Dajun was attributed to Cheng Huaiqian’s bodyguards. There was still some room for improvement.

“Don’t scare yourself for now. Let’s keep a low profile and be cautious for now and see how things develop.”

As Xia Ruize was talking, he started to pick up the orange peels. When he heard his mother calling him from the kitchen, he quickly responded with a smile and went to help serve the dishes to the table.

Cheng Huaiqian looked at the latest message on his mobile phone, smiled, put down his phone, and went over to help serve dinner.

Fang Qingyue happily watched the two big boys at home eat up all the dishes on the table. Although some colleagues said it was a pity when they found out that her son lived with his boyfriend at home, and actually criticized her son for being a loser and relying on his parents for support, she herself did not care and was very happy to have her two children in front of her every day.

After all, most children nowadays are very independent, spreading their wings and flying farther and farther away from home. Their elderly parents at home would always miss them. Now, not only do the children go home by themselves every day, they also bring their lovers home every day. Fang Qingyue felt lively and happy just watching this.

Unexpectedly, Cheng Huai Qian went on a business trip early the next morning. Fang Qingyue was more reluctant to let him go than her own son, and gave him several instructions before letting him get in the car.

As a result, before it got dark, Xia Ruize, who stayed at home to digest the information, saw Cheng Huaiqian coming back, and he was immediately at a loss whether to laugh or cry:

“How can this be considered a business trip when you’ve been gone for less than a day? When you left, my mom said I didn’t know how to care about you. When she sees you when she comes back in the evening, her expression will be very interesting.”

Cheng Huaiqian smiled and took two steps forward to hug him tightly. He buried his head in his neck and took a deep breath of his scent. He said softly, “I have to rely on you to stay alive every day. I didn’t get to breathe you in for several hours today. This business trip was really far.”

Amidst the laughter, Cheng Huaiqian took out a uniquely shaped mobile phone, opened the video, showed the screen to Xia Ruize, and asked for credit: “Look what I found?”

Xia Ruize looked in the direction of his hand and saw a young man who looked to be about eighteen or nineteen years old on the screen. He was wearing large black-framed glasses and was shyly touching the back of his head in front of the camera.

Xia Ruize noticed that the background behind the young man was a small, seemingly closed room. The unique thing about it was that the room was filled with computer screens of various sizes, almost looking like a control room.

Before Xia Ruize could show a puzzled expression, the young man opposite him asked quietly, “Is that Brother Xia?”

Xia Ruize looked at the phone in his hand, then at Cheng Huaiqian who was lying on his shoulder with a smirk, and finally asked the young man on the screen, “Xiao Xuan?”

The older boy opposite nodded happily, his cheeks flushed with excitement.

“In reality, you have to face each other in person to recover all your memories.” Cheng Huaiqian reminded them with his head resting on his lover’s shoulder.

In fact, he had already planned to find Gao Hexuan in reality. He would chat with Gao Hexuan during the mission, and some subtle information would be remembered. However, he was not in a hurry to find him before, and Cheng Huaiqian only regarded it as a precautionary measure.

But since he realized that the authorities might have more inside information, Cheng Huaiqian accelerated the progress of the search for Gao Hexuan, and finally narrowed the search range to within five people. Today he went to visit them one by one, and finally when he found the third person, he met Gao Hexuan face to face in reality and recovered the memory blocked by the Lord god.

As for Xia Ruize, he and Gao Hexuan communicated through a video camera. Before they met in person, the images of each other in their memories would still be blurred.

But this was not a big problem. With Cheng Huaiqian as a witness, as long as Xia Ruize and Gao Hexuan ignore the blurred information in their memories, they could communicate without any awkwardness.

“Brother Cheng came to me to ask me to personally take charge of your daily security. I will inform you in a timely manner if there are any important discoveries.”

After the shyness when they first met, Gao Hexuan mentioned his professional field with a calm and confident attitude. He himself had a strong interest in computers and the Internet, and was a highly skilled hacker in real life.

After the bloodline bonus of the Endless World, Gao Hexuan’s skills had become even more advanced. This was why Cheng Huaiqian was anxious to find Gao Hexuan. He needed someone who was fully familiar with the inside story and had enough strength to help them control the network.

With the addition of Gao Hexuan, all actions against Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian in the real world became transparent.

The authorities did doubt the identities of the two men and sent people to observe their whereabouts. There were six people in charge of the surveillance, and they were very professional. They observed Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian’s activities around the clock in three time periods.

However, the authorities’ suspicion of the two people should be very slight. After following them for a month and witnessing Cheng Huaiqian’s bodyguards display their strong strength in handling an accident, the follow-up personnel were withdrawn one after another.

Of course, the professional bodyguards hired by Cheng Huaiqian did not notice anything during the whole process.

If Gao Hexuan had not been in full control of all the surveillance equipment around the two people’s movements and had not made a lot of comparisons, it would have been very difficult to discover the highly overlapping figures of the six people.

The authorities withdrew their surveillance and did not take any further action. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian did not make any unusual moves and continued to lead an easy and peaceful life as if they had noticed nothing.

After a long period of consideration and discussion, the three returned to the Endless World together at the original time and went to the main temple to make the purchase.

Xia Ruize used some of the survival points gained from this mission and the remaining survival points from the previous mission to purchase a silver-quality low-grade martial art [Arrow Falling], which was a powerful arrow-controlling martial art. When combined with his silver-quality weapon [Light Arrow], the killing power was instantly greatly increased.

Cheng Huaiqian also purchased a martial arts technique, a silver-quality, low-grade body technique called [Mirage of the Moon  Magic Technique]. The bonuses his demon bloodline and vampire bloodline had brought to his speed and body techniques were already considerable, but he still wanted to pursue even more terrifying body techniques.

After purchasing the body skills, Cheng Huaiqian still had a lot of survival points left. Some of them were intended to be used to purchase training auxiliary functions, and some of them were intended to be saved and used to buy a silver-quality sword skill that he had taken a fancy to next time.

There was no way. When the quality of the goods sold in the Lord God’s Store reached silver, the starting price was 15,000 survival points. Even Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian had to save up to afford it.

As for Gao Hexuan, he bought a silver low-grade weapon [Lightning Gun]. The exquisite silver gun body made Gao Hexuan love it so much that he almost drooled while touching it.

The two big teammates reminded Gao Hexuan that his attack was a little weak in speed and strength. After all, before each attack, Gao Hexuan needed to spend time typing a lot of code to construct a move.